Encouraging outcomes in the first year of a TB control demonstration program: Orel Oblast, Russia.

Setting: Orel, Russia.

Objective: To evaluate outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) patients treated in the first year of a TB control demonstration project using a revised strategy of directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS). Standard methods recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) were adapted to include mycobacterial cultures.

Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in community and prison patients, Orel Oblast, Russian Federation.

Setting: Orel Oblast, Russian Federation.

Objectives: To determine baseline levels of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Orel Oblast.

Design: Drug susceptibility testing (DST) records from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 for patients with sputum acid-fast bacilli smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis were reviewed.